I love the soft color palette, twill tape bow, candy dots and snipett of lace trim that finish off this festive card! The mixy-matchy patterned papers give it a warm, comfortable and homespun feeling ... perfect to send off to that special friend this season to let them know how grateful you are to have them in your life!

Please be sure to visit The Kraft Journal challenge blog to check out the amazing inspiration from the rest of the teamies ... and then I hope you'll have time to give this week's 'Harvest Time' challenge a try for a chance to win some goodness from The Kraft Outlet Shop!

The votes are in and I’m thrilled to announce the winner of the Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #12 Challenge: Gail L!

The easel style card that Gail created just stole our hearts! The coloring is so beautiful on the image and all those little leaves just made us smile! Contact me, Gail, to claim your gift certificate for a shopping spree and get the challenge details for your Guest Designer spot in December!

Now, we have PaperSweeties Inspiration #13 to share with you all!! Paper Sweeties hosts monthly challenges right here on the blog! Each month on the 1st we will have a brand new inspiration for you to play along with. You can enter as many times as you wish throughout the month — the more times you enter, the more chances you’ll have to win!

It’s as easy as 1-2-3 to create, share and win:

1. CREATE a card or project based on the current inspiration graphic using any of your favorite crafty supplies! You’ll get an extra vote if you use ANYTHING from the Paper Sweeties Shop!! Use the graphic as a starting point for your project — be inspired by the colors, shapes, theme — anything goes … most important — HAVE FUN and let our photo inspiration spark your creativity!

2. POST a DIRECT LINK to your project in our Inlinkz gallery below — please use the URL to your actual project post (not your entire blog) so we can easily find your creation. You do not need to have a blog to enter — you can use any online gallery such as Flickr,Pinterest, Facebook or Splitcoast Stampers (keyword papersweeties)! You can pin your Paper Sweeties creations directly to our Friends of Paper Sweeties Pinterest Board — contact me for an invitation to contribute!

3. LINK back to this blog post so your readers can easily find us!

Our challenge will run for the entire month. You can play along as many times as you wish — the more times you play, the more chances you have to win! The challenges will end at 12 pm EST on the last day of each month. The new challenge will be revealed on the 1st of each month. The winner of the previous month’s challenge will be announced on the 1st of each new month, will win a $20 gift certificate to the boutique and will be invited to Guest Design with the Sweeties next month!

Paper Sweeties Inspiration #13:

Here are a couple projects created by the Sweeties Teamies to get your creative juices flowing!!

Created using the Abigail, It's Tea Time and Sweeties Wagon stamp sets along with the Abigail Sweet Cuts die! Designed by our September challenge winner: Heidi Gonzales.

Created using the Emma, Live Love Grow, Some Bunny Loves You, The Splendor of Autumn and Have a Holly Jolly Holiday {coming 12/1} stamp sets along with the Emma Sweet Cuts die! Designed by Debbie Marcinkiewicz.

Created using the Abigail, Warm Winter Wishes and Snow Friends stamp sets along with the Abigail Sweet Cuts die! Designed by Tammy Hobbs.

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GOOD LUCK to all those that enter!

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The Tea Room is sponsored by The Cutting Cafe this week and I was lucky enough to create a little something sweet using Regina's adorable Pumpkin Treat Box template! I love the mixy matchy feel of this sweet treat when patterned papers are layered on top of the base template!I used the Banner Wishes, Sweeties Wagon and Home Tweet Home stamp sets to create the sentiment tags on the pumpkin and stick!Please be sure to hop on over to The Shabby Tea Room to check out the amazing inspiration projects from the rest of the teamies ... and then we hope you'll play along with our 'Pumpkin Spice' challenge this week for a chance to win some awesomeness from The Cutting Cafe!

Happy weekend, sweeties! Do you have anything fun or special planned for this weekend? There are so many fall events going on in our little neck of the woods - pumpkin patches and corn mazes ... the Halloween decor has started to pop up on neighbor's homes -- such a fun time of the year 🙂 I have a couple of sweet projects to share with you all today created by a couple of the Sweeties teamies -- enjoy!

Paper Sweeties is sponsoring the current challenge at the Curtain Call and I'm popping in to share some of the gorgeous inspiration the Curtain Call Design Team girls shared using some sweet stamps and seam binding from the Paper Sweeties boutique ... enjoy 🙂

Amber Kroening created this a-dorable card using the Stand Add-on 3 stamp set!

Barb Murphy created this beautiful CAS card using the Sweeties Wagon stamp set!

Hi there sweeties! Welcome to our RELEASE PARTY for the Paper Sweeties October New Products! We have some adorable things that we are excited to share with you today to help spark your creativity! We're so happy you stopped by today 🙂

Are you hosting a Thanksgiving dinner or party … we've shared loads of ideas for table favors, name place cards, gift tags, cards … and you can also turn these ideas into scrapbook pages, gifts and so much more! The possibilities are endless when you use our versatile and fun stamps and dies!

Please be sure to visit our online galleries to peek at lots more inspiration projects created by the Sweeties Teamies:

We have several ways for you to participate in our current October contests and giveaways — enter for your chance to win some goodness from the boutique:

* LIKE our Facebook Fan Page and SHARE with your blog and/or Facebook friends for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate when we reach our next giveaway level of 1,300 fans!

* CREATE to WIN free stamp sets!! Submit your project for the current Paper Sweeties #12 challenge using any of your favorite crafty supplies for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the shop and a guest designer invitation to create with us next month — earn a bonus vote if you use anything from the Paper Sweeties boutique! Congratulations to Heidi Gonzales … our challenge #11 WINNER!

*HOP, COMMENT & CREATE: Hop along with our current Baby Blog Hop and then create a CONGRATULATIONS or BABY theme card and add it to our linky gallery for a chance to win one of THREE $10 gift certificates to the Paper Sweeties boutique!!!

Do you like discounts? Subscribe to our Paper Sweeties newsletter to receive member-only coupons and specials!

Did you know that Paper Sweeties has a Publication Incentive Program? Yes, we do! If you have a card or project published in any nationally recognized print magazine using Paper Sweeties stamps, contact us to receive a $25 shopping spree in the boutique!

The Sweeties are going on the road again! next week We’ll be attending the Stamp Scrap Art Tour Convention in Hampton, VA October 26th & 27th … and I’ll be teaching a CLASS there on the 25th! I’m so excited to meet our fabulous Sweeties fans in the Virginia Beach and surrounding areas! Hope to see you there!

We ADORE reading your sweet comments … thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!! See you back here again tomorrow for some more adorable project shares from the teamies for our release wrap up! Until then, happy stamping my friends!

Paper Sweeties is sponsoring the Curtain Call challenge this week! You can create inspired by their lovely photo this week for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Paper Sweeties boutique!

Have you checked out all the amazing inspiration that the Sweeties Teamies created for today's RELEASE PARTY yet? Scroll up one post to see all the eye candy ... and your first peek at the brand new October stamp sets too!

Thanks for stopping by today! Until next time, happy stamping my friends!

I stamped the pretty sentiment directly onto a die cut leaf using the Sweeties Wagon stamp set, and then I stamped two little leaves from the Make Toady Beautiful stamp set and adhered them behind the Terra Cotta colored paper bloom! I added several layers of goodness to include embossing, two patterned papers, grosgrain ribbon and burlap ... all topped off with a fun polka dotted wooden clothespin and some yummy candy dots!

Paper Sweeties is sponsoring the Tea Room challenge this week ... I hope you'll have time to give this sketch challenge a try for a chance to win a gift certificate to the boutique!

Happy Friday crafty friends - TGIF! I hope you have wonderful plans for the weekend ... and I hope some of those plans involve something a little bit crafty and fun!

I started the weekend off a little early by having my sweet friend, Audrey, over for coffee today! We visited, chit chatted, giggled and caught up! Audrey is just the sweetest gal ever and uber talented too ... look at this happy little fella she made just for me! She remembered that I don't decorate very much with orange pumpkins and really like the white ones ... so she made this little sweetie especially for me -- he's so adorable and yummy -- like a smiling autumn marshmallow! I added him to an antique scale that I have a berry garland and artichokes in ... he looks like he was made to live here!

Hello crafty friends and welcome to my blog today! I'm here to share a pretty little something I made to decorate my home this fall season! {click on the photos to view larger pictures of each shot}

I live in a {pink} Victorian, so orange is a bit difficult for me to decorate with ... although I'm seeing a lot of orange and hot pink paired together on Pinterest these days, so maybe these two colors really do 'go' together after all! Call my old fashioned, but when I think of the fall season and Halloween, I think dark, rich colors ... black!

So, I set out to decorate this pretty white pumpkin my hubby brought home this past weekend -- with lots of bits and bobs of treasures from my craft room baskets! I made a triple layered bow beginning with some re-purposed burlap from my friend, Suzi, layering white tulle on top of that and then completing the bow with some shabby, tea-stained Cake Crumbs and Oatmeal Cream seam binding from Paper Sweeties!

I wrapped a vintage piece of hand-crocheted trim that I picked up while antiquing at the Liberty Antique Show around the base of the stem and then added some spooled chiffon trim on top of the crochet trim to create dimension! Last I added some sparkle by adhering a couple of rhinestone flourishes!

I have a couple of FUN places I am creating for this month! First up is the Polka Dot Pumpkin Blog Hop over at Zappy Dots ... if you haven't stopped by to check out all their amazing inspiration yet, you must do so! Delicious projects shared for all of your crafting needs!! Paper Sweeties is the featured business today - yay! Thank you Zappy Dots!

And next, I am happy to be Guest Designing for the month of October for the Ribbon Carousel! Have you seen this amazingly functional ribbon organizer yet ... fun, functional and pretty all at the same time! I'll be sharing a little something here on the blog with my *new* Ribbon Carousel later on this month -- I can't wait to show you how it looks loaded up with yummy seam binding and some of my dearest crafty treasures!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, my friends! Until next time, happy crafting!